MILLIKEN 
GARDENS 
General Bearded Iris List for 1952 
The Iris must certainly be one of Mother Nature’s favorite children, for year after year she con- 
tinues to make them more beautiful, with the help of some hybridizers, who work with as much 
diligence, and a lot more system, than Dame Nature’s own workers, the bees. Now is the time to 
order these lovely new things for next year’s garden. Order early, and plant early. Your plants 
must have a well established root system in order to carry through the winter, and be ready to jump 
at the first sign of spring. 
ACTION FRONT (P. Cook) 
A large glowing copper-red with a bright golden beard. 3 ft. 
75c; 3 for $2.00 
ADORNMENT (Milliken) 
One of the most charming iris in our entire collection. A crisp, 
tailored flower in an enchanting shade of medium violet, adorned 
with a lovely blue beard. 2% ft. $1.50; 3 for $3.75 
ALADDIN’S WISH (Murawska) 
An unusual flower which is like a porcelain on which a coat- 
ing of blue has been super-imposed on pale cream. It can be used 
to advantage in flower arrangements, especially with solid colors. 
3 tte $1.50; 3 for $3.75 
ALDURA (Larsen) 
A firmly built flower with sharply marked blue penciling on a 
clean white background making one of the most beautiful of the 
blue plicatas. 2% ft. $1.00; 3 for $2.50 
AMANDINE (G. Douglas) 
Each year this refreshing lemon-sherbet self, with its daintily 
fluted blooms, which are amazingly weather resistant, gains many 
new friends. There is always room for another beautiful cream 
colored iris in the garden. 3 ft. $3.50 
AND THOU (Graves) 
Another of Doctor Graves’ beautiful blue iris—this a creation 
of ethereal misty blue-white, flushed with blue at the haft. The 
beard reverses the color scheme, being deep blue heavily tipped 
with white. Mid-season. 3 ft. $1.00; 3 for $2.50 
APPOINTEE (C. G. White) 
This is very exceptional. The falls are tinted lime green—the 
standards are light yellow green, flowers are large and somewhat 
$1.00; 3 for $2.50 
ruffled. 4 ft. 
California Iris 
Are Hardy 
We are sometimes asked if MILLIKEN IRIS are 
hardy in cold sections of the country. With the ex- 
ception of a few varieties which we have listed as 
tender, our Iris are PERFECTLY HARDY in all parts 
of the country. MILLIKEN IRIS are unconditionally 
GUARANTEED to be true to name, and to grow in 
your garden. 
SHIPPING TIME: Bearded irises can be shipped 
any time after June Ist to suit your convenience. 
POSTAGE: We prepay postage anywhere on orders 
amounting to $3.00 and over, except permanent labels, 
which are sent prepaid according to rate schedule 
on page 18. On orders of less than $3.00 add 50 cents 
to cover postage and packing. 
TERMS: Cash with order. Remit by personal check, 
express or postal money order. 
PLANTING DIRECTIONS will accompany each 
shipment. 
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OUR GUARANTEE 
We absolutely guarantee all of our iris to grow in 
your garden. In case of loss, we shall make prompt 
replacement when notified. In case of replacements 
the cost of transportation will be borne by the 
purchaser. 
ARAB CHIEF (Whiting) 
This is becoming very popular because of its brilliant coloring. 
A near self in burnt orange. Vigorous and a free bloomer. 3 ft. 
$1.00; 3 for $2.50 
ARCADIA BUTTERCUP (Milliken) 
For years Arcadia Buttercup has been our pride and _ joy, 
showering us with beautiful golden blossoms from mid-winter 
on through the regular iris season, but the engravers practically 
ruined its reputation with the color cut which was regretfully 
placed on the front of our 1951 catalogue. They have promised 
to try and put a little of the li*e and sparkle, with which Arcadia 
Buttercup is overly endowed, into a revised color cut (page 12), 
but nothing but the flower itself can give an idea of the beauty 
it really is. 2% ft. $3.00 
IRIS COLLECTIONS 
ARE OFFERED ON PAGE 19 
ARGUS PHEASANT (DeForest) 
A prize package is this lovely iris—a self of beautiful golden 
Argus-brown with a matching beard. Smooth texture, good form 
and excellent brancaing combine to give us another outstanding 
iris from the DeForest garden. Mid-season. 38 inches. See illus- 
tration on front cover. $10.00 
AUTUMN LEAF (Milliken) 
A tall vigorous warm brown, especially effective with blues, 
yellows and rusty pinks. 40 inches. $1.00; 3 for $2.50 
AZURE SKIES (Pattison) 
A beautifully ruffled pale azure-blue self with firm domed stand- 
ards and delightfully flaring falls. A white beard gives this at- 
tractive flower just the right finishing touch. An outstanding light 
blue iris which should be in every garden. 3 ft. 75c; 3 for $2.00 
BALI EELLE (Mitchell) 
One of the most delightful plicatas which we have seen. The 
background is yellow, with a definite chartreuse cast. The surfaces 
are lightly peppered with tiny dark dots, the most outstanding 
featur> is the blue blaze which extends down the fall from the 
white beard. The flower is not large, but intriguing. 2% ft. 
$1.50; 3 for $3.75 
BEL-AIR (Milliken) 
A very much ruffled, round flower in the medium violet shades. 
Both standards and falls are about the same size, 2 inches by 
2 inches, or larger. The style arms and crests are broad. The 
petals are translucent enough so that the ruffling is accented by 
highlights and shadows. It has a pleasing delicate fragrance. An 
altozether delightful iris. 2% ft. $3.00 
BELLE BRUNETTE (Mitchell) 
A very unusual plicata having a primrose background upon 
which is woven an intriguing pattern in red-brown. Not a large 
flower, but lovely. 21% ft. $2.50 
BEN BOLT (Lothrop) 
New and outstanding velvety pansy purple, a regal iris, carrying 
perfectly shaped blossoms atop three foot well-branched stalks. 
$5.00 
BERKELEY GOLD (Mitchell) 
One of the best of the deep yellows. The color is clear, not 
muddy; the size, shape and substance good, with excellent branch- 
ing. Deservedly popular throughout the country. 3 ft. 
75c; 3 for $2.00 
BERTHA GERSDORFF (J. Sass) 
A pale yellow which is washed with rosy purple. Unusual. 3 ft. 
$1.00; 3 for $2.50 
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